Thomas H. Jones
Objective

To apply the combination of systems development and project management skills, nursing education, business education and experience to the development and support of all types of healthcare information and decision support systems.

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Synopsis

Mr. Jones has worked in the information systems field for more than 20 years. He managed his own consulting firm with a technical staff of 20. He functioned as CEO, consultant, project manager, senior systems engineer, JAD facilitator, analyst, and programmer. Mr. Jones worked with and developed hospital systems of all types, medical, nursing research, financial, manufacturing, and construction systems. He developed interfaces between a number of diverse hospital systems both from scratch and with an interface engine. He developed networked, client-server solutions for over ten years. Mr. Jones has a business degree from Penn State and is an RN with a BSN from Messiah College. He currently is working with a decision support system and is actively developing an enterprise-wide, cross-platform, cost analysis system.  He is also actively engaged in the development and deployment of more than forty (40) interfaces using interface engine technology provided by HIE.

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Platforms

Hardware: IBM 3090, 4381, 9370; DEC; HP; Various stand-alone and networked microcomputers including IBM, clones, and Apple.

Operating Systems: VM/CMS; MVS; UNIX; VAX VMS; MS Windows 3.x, 95, 98 and NT 4.0; MS/DOS; OS/2.

Network Software: Novell Netware 386, Netware/SFT, Netware 3.x, 4.x; Banyon; Omninet; Molecular LAN.

Databases: Oracle 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 8.x; DB2; Watcom SQL; MS Access, FoxPro 2.x - 6.x; Btrieve; Xbase.

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Applications and Tools

Applications: HIE/Hublink Integrator, HBO Trendstar including HSL, CCA, RUA and CPA, GEAC G/L, AMS A/P, AMS Material Management, PDS Payroll & HR, Ceridian Payroll & HR, Compucare Affinity HIS, IDX Radiology, Cerner Pharmacy, Atwork ORSOS & ANSOS, Atlas MediQual, EAS Time Management, Monarch Report Data Extraction.

Languages: MUMPS Query; Datatrieve; Reflection scripting; MS FoxPro 1.x, 2.x, Visual 3.x to 6.0; MS Visual Basic 3.x to 6.0; Power Builder; SmallTalk, Visual SmallTalk, Parts; SQL, Oracle SQL, P/SQL, SQL Forms, SQL Plus, SQL Loader, QMX; Xbase compatible; REXX; C, C++; COBOL; PASCAL; FORTH; PL/1; Assembler; Various Basics; Web - MS Visual Interdev 6, HTML, Java, Java Script, VB Script, TCL, Perl.

Project support tools: Knowledgeware; IEF; Project Workbench; Timeline; MS -- Project, Schedule, Word, Excel, PowerPoint; Lotus – 123, AmiPro, Persuasion.

Methodologies: Martin’s Information Engineering; Yourdon’s Structured Analysis and Design; Booch’s Object-Oriented Analysis and Design; Coad/Yourdon’s Object Oriented Analysis.

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Education 1993 - 1996   Messiah College, Grantham, PA
BSN / Nursing
Full-time work/student maintain 3.80/4.00 GPA (3.95 major).
Clinical experience including: gerontology, obstetrics, medical/surgical, pediatrics, psychiatric, critical care, emergency, home health.
AMIA, Sigma Theta Tau, and Sigma Zeta nursing/science honor societies; NSNA.

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1993 - 1994    HAAC, Harrisburg, PA
General Requirements Transfer for RN program at Messiah College

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1965 - 1969 Penn State University, University Park, PA
BS / Business Administration – General Management

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Other --
CTG, Institute for Technical Training, Buffalo, NY
IEF - Concepts to Practice, ADW - Analysis, ADW - Design, Systems Analysis and Design, Presentation Skills, C Programming, and SQL.
Oracle Corporation, Belmont, CA
Application Developer Series, Database Administration Series, Relational Database Design, and Application Performance Tuning.
HBO & Company, Mt. Laurel, NJ
Various Trendstar application specific training classes including: CCA Builder Training, CPA Builder Training and all other HSL, CCA, RUA, and CPA course offerings..
HIE - Hublink, Dallas, TX.
Interface developers and managers classes.
HL7 Organization, Ann Arbor, MI
HL7 standard, Interface Development, Interface Project Management, and other HL7 course offerings.

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Associations Professional association memberships:
Health Level Seven (HL7) standards organization.
American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA).
Sigma Theta Tau – International professional nursing academic honor society.

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Presentations Presentation of these technical papers at various symposia:
Distributed Database Systems – from Vision to Reality.
OOPS Paradigm as an Agent of Change.
Multiple Platform Relational Database Management.

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Interests
Information Systems / Nursing Informatics
Use of PERT and CP/M for the development, and management of clinical pathways for the identification of the root cause of actual care and care costs variation.  Development of cost systems usable by nurse clinicians to manage the cost of service delivery.
Internet
Investigating integration of Internet resources with community healthcare approaches to profitably help clients to understand and manage their health.
Nursing
Examining impact of "hospital without walls." Developing the technology and skills needed to exploit opportunities in the rapid changes to healthcare delivery.

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Professional Experience
1996 - Present The Gettysburg Hospital, Gettysburg, PA
Decision Support Coordinator
Mr. Jones is responsible for the development, deployment, refinement, and maintenance of a fully allocated cost system to the CDM item level.
Mr. Jones is responsible for managing and coordinating the reimbursement contract negotiation and management function.
Mr. Jones developed an automated interface between an HP-UNIX based Affinity HIS from Compucare and a Dec-Open VMS based Trendstar financial system from HBOC. He developed this table-driven interface using TCP/IP, MUMPS query facility, Reflection communication package with scripting language, VAX VMS, Microsoft Access and Windows. The interface is fully user modifiable via a MS Access based front end and code MUMPS query facility code generator that he wrote for the project.
Acting as the system manager, Mr. Jones is responsible for all aspects of the daily operation of the HBOC Trendstar system. He is responsible for user training and support. Using his business background and education, Mr. Jones plans and develops many of the analysis functions put to use by hospital staff.
In addition to his HBOC Trendstar responsibilities, Mr. Jones is involved with all hospital systems interfacing. He developed a number of interfaces (e.g. Compucare to HBOC, Atlas MediQual to HBOC, AMS Materials Management to Atwork ORSOS, PDS payroll to Ceridian payroll, and PDS payroll to EAS time management ) between various hospital systems -- now using the HIE/Hublink Integrator interface engine.

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Professional Experience
1996 - 1997 Pinnacle Health System, Harrisburg, PA
Staff RN
Mr. Jones worked full time and then  part time, as staff nurse and case manager for a large, hospital based, home healthcare agency. He performed the usual duties of a Registered Nurse and was actively involved with the supporting documentation for Medicare and other reimbursements for the patients he treated.

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Professional Experience
1993 - 1996 Independent Consulting, Carlisle, PA
Consultant
Mr. Jones developed several systems including a large, 90+ window, client-server based financial arbitrage management system.
Mr. Jones also developed several small systems supporting data gathering and analysis for nursing research projects.

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Professional Experience
1988 - 1993 CTG, Inc., Buffalo, NY
Consultant – Senior Systems Engineer
Mr. Jones managed a BAA through construction, IE project which reduced a Fortune 500 company’s annual operating costs by $500k. He used the ADW CASE tool to support his JAD session facilitation of planning, analysis, logical data and process modeling, and design and RAD prototype validation. This multiple LAN, IBM 3090 MVS, client-server project interacts with 35 time-clocks at 4 locations, has 200+ users managing work-scheduling, work-time, vacation, absence, injuries, and payroll data for 2000+ employees.
Mr. Jones was technical leader for a field-engineering project using Oracle for a store/forward network including an IBM 9370 and 80 portable PCs. He remotely developed an Oracle/Novell client-server reporting system. He developed a management support tool which integrated standard products for project management, communication, statistical analysis, and graphic presentation, to plan and manage standard/variation projects.

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Professional Experience

1978 - 1988 TNC, Inc., Carlisle, PA
Software Development Manager / President / Owner
Prior to joining CTG, Mr. Jones was the president and owner of a 20-employee company specializing in the development of custom, multi-user, LAN based software for the manufacturing and construction industries.
Mr. Jones’ responsibilities included financing and management of TNC. He worked with top-level executives of client companies to insure proper planning and execution of projects. These included: a 5-year, multiple-site project implementing a large, integrated MRP, Purchasing, A/R, A/P, G/L, and Payroll system on a 36-node CSMA/CD-parallel bus LAN with central disk server. Mr. Jones solved numerous technical problems for this project stemming from the lack of multi-user software development tools and slow, 4MHz, 8-bit microprocessors. The solution included reverse engineering of Microsoft’s compiled basic run-time in order to add file/record locking and inter-nodal communications features allowing control of idle nodes for allocation of processes. The result was an MRP system capacity of 17,500 transactions/day (exceeds capacity of MFG-3000 running on a top of line HP 3000 minicomputer of the time).
Mr. Jones and his staff developed a custom medical management system. The system provided client tracking and billing (including multiple insurers and the need for data supporting fee increases for subsequent years), for a multiple-physician, rural, medical facility.
Mr. Jones and his staff also developed and supported multi-user, micro-based systems providing bid creation and management featuring automated plan "take-offs" using "sonic-pen" digitizing, with full integration of accounting cycle functions.
Mr. Jones developed a number of mass-market products for the Apple II+ computer. These included a personal database management system, educational software, educational software authoring tool, and systems diagnostic disk. He also developed a custom financial forecasting and management system with a user interface that anticipated Visicalc (forerunner of Lotus/Excel).

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References References are available upon request.

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